What is the mechanism or procedure for installing additional packages from the six CentOS 5.0 CD's using Yum, assuming a secured server with no outside internet connection?
Debian based distributions are able to use the package manager to search for and install from the CD's, and I'm looking for the CentOS equivalent.
Obviously, it's possible to install "manually" from a CD with:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom cd /media/cdrom/CentOS rpm -U foobar-1.2.3.-4.5.el5.i386.rpm
Yum has such good dependency checking I'd like to know of a way to use it if possible.
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Keith, --- Keith Christian keithchristian@yahoo.com wrote:
What is the mechanism or procedure for installing additional packages from the six CentOS 5.0 CD's using Yum, assuming a secured server with no outside internet connection?
Debian based distributions are able to use the package manager to search for and install from the CD's, and I'm looking for the CentOS equivalent.
Obviously, it's possible to install "manually" from a CD with:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom cd /media/cdrom/CentOS rpm -U foobar-1.2.3.-4.5.el5.i386.rpmYum has such good dependency checking I'd like to know of a way to use it if possible.
Checkout the file /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo
there are several pre-set mount points for your ISO mounts. For my DVD I use /mnt/repo
I see above you have the right mount for an ISO. Then to point YUM to your media repo use #yum install SomeRPM --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=c5-media
if you want to ban external access, the disablerepo token is the key.
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 10:51 -0800, Mark Pryor wrote:
Keith, --- Keith Christian keithchristian@yahoo.com wrote:
What is the mechanism or procedure for installing additional packages from the six CentOS 5.0 CD's using Yum, assuming a secured server with no outside internet connection?
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Checkout the file /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo
there are several pre-set mount points for your ISO mounts. For my DVD I use /mnt/repo
I see above you have the right mount for an ISO. Then to point YUM to your media repo use #yum install SomeRPM --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=c5-media
if you want to ban external access, the disablerepo token is the key.
IIRC, it's not that simple with the 6 CDs. Search the CentOS forums/lists (google site:centos.org argument IIRC). ISTM that you need to combine the CDs into a single image.
If so, and network capacity/cost is not an issue, it might be better to download the DVD image and then loop mount it. Then all works as Mark wrote.
All this from hazy memory remaining after months of extensive work hours, so there may be mis-info here, but I hope not.
HTH -- Bill
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